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Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: The High Cost of Commodities

Have you noticed how cheap gasoline is, of late? Perhaps I will re-word that one. Gas isn’t exactly cheap. (That’s right, but I am, cheap that is). I must say, six or seven bucks a gallon surely ain’t cheap. However, I’ve seen at least one gas station in Crestline...
Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: The Ants Go Marching

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: The Ants Go Marching

Nothing is more irritating to me than ants invading my kitchen pantry and getting into my Honey Smacks and Frosted Flakes. Although, the song “Who Let The Dogs Out” comes pretty close, as does “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.” It happens like clockwork following a...

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: I Love a Rainy Night

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: I Love a Rainy Night

Well, it’s wintertime again and I barely got finished putting away all the Christmas tree ornaments on the tree when Albert (my cat) got rambunctious and wanted to play with them. Oh, and then he wanted a fancy dinner so, of course, I gave him a fancy feast. Then,...

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott – Lightning Strikes

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott – Lightning Strikes

Some folks love a rainy night. Me, I like a rainy night with a thunderstorm. Well, we had a humdinger the other day few weeks ago, what with the bolt that struck the bell in the belltower here at the stately Motley Manor.  And it’s a good thing there were no bats in...

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about already – war, pestilence, plague, drought and Ice agents waiting in the wings – a consortium of 100 scientists recently announced that California is overdue for what’s being called a “super-storm” of biblical proportions....

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: Ripple

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: Ripple

So sad to see a man like Bob Weir cross over to the other side… he will be greatly missed by his family and all of his admirers. It was nice to see Bobby honored during the Grammy Award show on Sunday, Feb. 1, when the event celebrated diverse musical achievements,...

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: The River

Mountain Musings with Uncle Mott: The River

Well, January has come and gone… Good riddance, too much precipitation, if you ask me, which you probably didn’t. A few years ago (2023), we had “Snowmageddon” and I got a T-shirt that said, “I survived Snowmageddon.” I feel like I deserve a new T-shirt that says, “I...

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